Publisher's Synopsis
Glenn Langohr has been relentlessly pursuing God's Word since being redeemed from the Drug War and a prison cell. He hasn't stopped writing since, with over 60 published book, he disciples people in Redemption House by following Jesus Christ. In this book he reveals Matthew's goal, to make clear to the Jewish readers that Old Testament prophecies have been fulfilled in Jesus Christ. The author employs no less than fifty quotations from the Old Testament. The book of Isaiah in particular has exercised a great influence on Matthew's gospel.The heart of the message that Matthew wants to pass on to his readers is that Jesus is the Messiah and that with Him the Kingdom of God has 'broken into' the world. This book identifies the spiritual war that God's Son defeated through His Resurrection. This book makes you choose this day who you will proclaim until your belief turns into BE-LIVE-IT.Excerpt: The Word of God tells us in many places that we are in enemy territory until Jesus comes again. The focus of this book and series is to speak who God is into the world like Jesus told us to do as disciples. The Gospel of Matthew is filled with what Jesus Christ, our Messiah, did to Redeem us back to God by believing He rose from the grave. This book is going to examine how Jesus fulfilled important prophecies that prove He is the Son of God so we can stand in this victory through any winds of affliction that may come our way. Almost all of the disciples went to their death because watching someone who was murdered in a torturous process on a cross come back to life changed everything for them. After watching their Savior who Taught them for years about God's Truth in a way that was gentle but specific, come back to life from the grave, they wouldn't stop talking about Him. Think about it. Jesus Christ told them He would die and rise again, and then He did. He hung on a cross, beaten and "marred beyond human recognition" and then he uttered, "It is finished."This book is going to examine what "It is finished" means by unpacking it by looking at what Jesus told us in Luke chapter 24: 44, when He said to them, "This is what I told you while I was still with you: Everything must be fulfilled that is written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets and the Psalms."Saints, If you just walked with Jesus Christ through your neighborhood and watched Him restore one person after another that were beyond human aid You would listen to every word He said. This book is going to examine it in the context that helps us speak more boldly about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Lets use our thoughts for praise and prayer so we lean into God so boldly that we testify into the air. The Holy Spirit has empowered me to speak who God is into the air against thoughts like, "this isn't fair."Paul tells us that the very air we breathe is a spiritual war battleground and that our words must be used wisely in Ephesians 2: 2. A study of Romans chapter 10 establishes that by proclaiming that Jesus is Lord we profess our faith and are saved.Saints, the "works of the devil" are to distract us from using our God given breath to praise God back for giving us that very breath! Our thoughts have to stay focused on who God is, not what is happening on the news. If we get caught up in arguing about every issue going on around us we become more useful to the devil than God. But if we speak that Jesus rose from the grave to defeat "the works of the devil" into the air, that Truth spoken pushes back against despair and unbelief. Self-pity and despair are really unbelief. Our own human reasoning can drive us away from God in unbelief.
